College Basketball | Top 25 results | Tuesday
Top 25 Men No. 12 Tennessee 74, Georgia Southern 56
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Jonas Aidoo had 29 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 10 Tennessee beat Southern.
The winless Eagles (0-10) had no answer for the 6-foot-11 Aidoo, who also had two steals and two blocks. Aidoo was the only double-digit scorer for the Volunteers (7-3).
After trailing by as many as 28 points shortly after halftime, Georgia Southern cut the difference to 13 with a 10-point spurt midway through the second half. Derrick Harris came off the bench to score all but two of his 13 points in the second half for the Eagles.
Aidoo scored the first 10 points of the game and had 21 by halftime as the Vols led 49-21.
No. 21 Duke 89, Hofstra 68
DURHAM, N.C. — Kyle Filipowski had 28 points, 12 rebounds and a career-best eight assists to help No. 21 Duke beat Hofstra 89-68 on Tuesday night.
The 7-foot preseason Associated Press All-American made four 3-pointers and blocked three shots for the Blue Devils (7-3). Duke shot 55%, made 11 of 22 3-pointers and had four players in double figures while playing again without injured point guard Tyrese Proctor (ankle).
Jeremy Roach added 19 points for Duke, which trailed 37-32 late in
the first half before closing on a 12-2 burst before the break. That included a run of five straight made shots, a flurry that continued into the second half and ended with Filipowski hitting one right-corner 3 and then another from the same spot less than a minute later to push the Blue Devils to a 55-43 lead.
Darlinstone Dubar scored 24 points and hit seven 3s to lead the Pride (6-4). Hofstra shot 50% but committed 14 turnovers.
Duke extended its lead to 16 points by midway through the second half, didn’t let Hofstra closer than nine again and blew it open in the final minutes.
Top 25 Women No. 7 LSU 133, McNeese St. 44
BATON ROUGE, La. — Aalyah Del Rosario has 27 points and 10 rebounds and Angel Reese added 21 points and 10 boards as No. 7 LSU set school records for points in a game and margin of victory in a 133-44 rout of McNeese State on Tuesday night.
LSU easily surpassed its previous point total of 125, set in a win over Bellarmine (125-41) in November 2022. The Tigers’ 89-point margin of victory eclipsed their 76-point win over Prairie View (104-28) in 1995.
The game was tied at 10 when LSU scored a school-record 47 straight points as part of a 56-2 run that stretched from 3:24 left in the first quarter until McNeese scored on an Emellia Tenbrock layup with 8:19 left in the third.
LSU blanked McNeese 30-0 in the second quarter. The Cowgirls went 0 of 7 from the field and committed 16 turnovers, leading to 22 points for LSU.
Anneesah Morrow added 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Tigers, who had six players score in double figures. Mikaylah Williams scored 26 points, Flau’jae Johnson had 16 and Angelica Velez 10.
Alva Mofalk and Tenbrock led McNeese with 12 points each.
Against a McNeese defense ranked 334th among 348 Division I teams in points per game allowed, LSU missed 10 of its first 13 shots and was tied at 10 in the first six minutes of the game.
A three-point play by Morrow started LSU’s run. The Tigers led 3212 at the end of the first quarter and 62-12 at halftime.